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encouragement and support to exercise their
visitation rights. Parents who miss or who
show up late for visits may be having a hard
time facing the reality of the child's removal
from their home. Apparent lack of interest in
visitation may really be an avoidance tactic.
For these parents, it may be helpful to stress
the importance of visitation in helping their
child cope with separation and maintaining a
meaningful parent-child relationship.
Foster Care
Preplacement
and Visitation
Question: True or False. If a parent objects to
the child visiting with another family member
or friend, the visitation should not be allowed.
91%
Answer: False
Feedback: This statement is false. A parent
may not have the best interest of the child in
mind when objecting to some visitations.
Your job, in this situation, is to determine why
the parents object and then determine if the
contact would indeed be contrary to the wellbeing
of the child. Should you decide to allow
visits despite parental objections, document
clearly in the Case Plan the reasons for the
parents' objections and why the visits were
allowed. Also, the approval of the court must
be obtained for such visits made over the
objection of the parents.
Foster Care Assessment and Question: Who is most likely to remain 95%
Safe Futures – A Plan for Program Improvement
Georgia Department of Human Resources
November, 2004 Quarter 8 – Work Plan J Page 12